Rosa Parks’ post-Voting Rights Act work is a caution against the seductions of national celebrations and a reminder of our responsibility to the work ahead.

If Mike Huckabee wants Ferguson protesters to act “like the Rev. Martin Luther King,” political science professor Jeanne Theoharis has a few suggestions.

The traditional framing of the civil rights movement — meek seamstresses and dreamy ministers — distorts the true history and demonizes today’s protesters.

Pressing for a more substantive inclusion of women in the 1963 March on Washington program, Dorothy Height, the president of the National Council of Negro Women